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Jen Jilany_Up Style Editing

@jenjeditor.bsky.social

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Owner and Editor, Up Style Editing. Writer. Fiction and Creative Non-fiction. Dev, Line, Copyedits. Beta Reading, MS Eval's. 📚 EFA Member, Editors Canada Exec, WCC Workshops. ✍️ www.upstyleediting.ca

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Jen Jilany_Up Style Editing @jenjeditor.bsky.social · Jul 28

#editorrecommendations #clienttestimonials #editorsky #writingcommunity #booksky #vmsawh #genremashup

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Jen Jilany_Up Style Editing @jenjeditor.bsky.social · 1d

"Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book."

#booksky #bannedbooks #readeverybook #Library #Eisenhower #bookburning #bookban #bookeditor

Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 1d

“Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower, born on this day in 1890

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Jen Jilany_Up Style Editing @jenjeditor.bsky.social · 1d

Just realized that "Killing two birds with one stone" is actually an awful expression.

Who would want to kill birds? (Even one, let alone two!) 🐦

#Englishlanguage #idioms #birds #editthis #modernlanguage #antiquated #phrases #positivitynotnegativity #editor #strangerthanfiction #dontsayit

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Wild Hunt Books @wildhuntbooks.bsky.social · 5d

*Submission reminder*

We're open to unagented subs from 6-12 Oct. For this submission period we are looking for novellas only (35K-50K). We're specifically looking for novellas that play w horror, mystery, weird & the unusual.

More info below🐐
www.wildhuntbooks.co.uk/blog/pop-up-...

Pop up submission window — wild hunt books

Wild Hunt Books are open to unagented submissions  from 6-12 October 2025. For this submission period we are looking for novellas only (35K-50K words with a grace of 1000 words, over/under)...

www.wildhuntbooks.co.uk

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Jen Jilany_Up Style Editing @jenjeditor.bsky.social · 9d

Today's home office. 🏡 🍂

#outdoorsindoors #homeoffice #wip #amwriting #octobersummer

Jen Jilany_Up Style Editing @jenjeditor.bsky.social · 10d

There is a BC version as well, through Editors BC and either Surrey Public Library or Vancouver Library. I found a link for you: share.google/asjInCa4UR3W...

Blue Pencil: Writing Consultation with a Professional Editor

Local writers have a chance to receive professional advice on their writing project. Writers will be able to submit a writing project of up to 2500 words and be paired with a professional editor from ...

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Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com · 11d

I want going to dress up for Halloween this year until I stumbled across...

Spirit of Halloween costume, fiction writer, includes laptop notebooks lukewarm coffee bags under eyes and a natural desire to cause characters pain in English

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 11d

A recent photo of a starling murmuration as if smoke from a chimney has been called a "fluke" by its Yorkshire based, UK photographer, Anna Tosney #WomensArt

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Jen Jilany_Up Style Editing @jenjeditor.bsky.social · 11d

Awesome; glad you are acting fast. The first two sessions are already 80% full! 😯

Jen Jilany_Up Style Editing @jenjeditor.bsky.social · 11d

📢ATTENTION Hamilton-area writers 🖋️

We have expanded the Blue Pencil Writing Consults program to the @gritlitfestival.bsky.social audience!

Receive free editorial guidance on up to 2,500 words. Spots are limited! Sign up here: www.gritlit.ca/blue-pencil.

#amwriting #booksky #literaryfest #editor

Poster for the Blue Pencil Writing Consults program, which provides free editorial guidance.

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Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 13d

“Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.”
Graham Greene, born on this day in 1904

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Temple in a city @templeinacity.bsky.social · 13d

Every day is a good day to share a piece of writing or art you love. Or like. Or found uncomfortable. Or made you question or feel or think. That made you want to smile or cry or paint or draw or love. That reminded you of something you have or lost or could find. That carried your feet another step

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Jen Jilany_Up Style Editing @jenjeditor.bsky.social · 13d

Writer's Digest has shared their stance on AI:

"WD does not accept, use, or publish any material written by or with the aid of gen AI...The vast majority of publishers do not accept AI-influenced material."

www.writersdigest.com/writers-dige...

#AI #saynotoAI #AIisnotwriting #genAI #writersky

Writer's Digest AI Policy

As new technologies emerge, the Writer's Digest team feels it is essential to make our stance on generative AI clear.

www.writersdigest.com

Jen Jilany_Up Style Editing @jenjeditor.bsky.social · 15d

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 15d

Dear writers:

Write that story. Edit mercilessly. Send that email. Ignore the haters. Stay humble, but be confident. Get paid. Read a lot. Write despite your insecurities. Support others. Accept helpful criticism. Celebrate everything. Don't panic. Never quit. You got this.

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Jen Jilany_Up Style Editing @jenjeditor.bsky.social · 15d

Have come to the realization that my 2025 writing projects are dominated by the animal kingdom. 👑

- Prose, pending pub., about a swan 🦢
- Poetry, pending pub., about a muskrat 🦫
- Short story, pending pub., about a raven, opossum, and wolf 🐺

🔜 Next project: From the POV of a cat. 🐈‍⬛

#wildlife #pub

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Jen Jilany_Up Style Editing @jenjeditor.bsky.social · 15d

"The only purpose of revision is to get more deeply to the truth."
—Margaret Robison, poet

#poetry #writingcommunity #booksky #amediting #amwriting #art #editing #editor

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JMoonlight @jmoonlight.bsky.social · 19d

Any book worth banning is a book worth reading" — Isaac Asimov

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Bert’s Books @bertsbooks.bsky.social · 19d

Good morning. We are open. 📖☕️

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Jen Jilany_Up Style Editing @jenjeditor.bsky.social · 20d

My favourite book of all time. 🥰🍇📙

Jen Jilany_Up Style Editing @jenjeditor.bsky.social · 20d

I can watch Jordan Peele movies, too! (Creepy, but not scary?)

Jen Jilany_Up Style Editing @jenjeditor.bsky.social · 20d

You are 100% right, Walt. 😊

Jen Jilany_Up Style Editing @jenjeditor.bsky.social · 20d

We Live Here Now, by Sarah Pinsborough

I'm glad it's not just me! 🙂

Jen Jilany_Up Style Editing @jenjeditor.bsky.social · 20d

@stephenking.bsky.social was right about this one.

I read it in four days flat!

Still trying to understand why I can read horror novels but can't watch horror movies...😱

#weliveherenow #gothichorror #horrornovels #horror #booksky

Hardcover book on a table. We Live Here Now by Sarah Pinsborough

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Jen Jilany_Up Style Editing @jenjeditor.bsky.social · 21d

📝Signing a contract with Writer's Digest to join their judging team for the WD Self-Published E-book Awards, in the Science Fiction category! 👽🪐🛸

#sciencefiction #writersky #ebooks #bookawards #booksky #developmentaleditor #copyeditor #bookeditor #sff #scifi

Jen Jilany_Up Style Editing @jenjeditor.bsky.social · 22d

This is me! I'm 44, mom to two boys, and I've been circling around the same 15,000 words of an urban fantasy novel for the past six years. 🤦‍♀️ I am really struggling with carving out writing time, and welcome any advice from female authors who have been successful at it. Will DM you. 😊